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culminicorn

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cul-mini-corn
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A horny piece on a bird's beak that envelopes the culmen in some bird species, such as mollymawks.

Etymology

From oblique stem of Latin culmen, culminis (“top, roof, summit, peak”) + -i- + -corn.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

culminicorns (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

latericorn ramicorn

Questions

What does culminicorn mean?
A horny piece on a bird's beak that envelopes the culmen in some bird species, such as mollymawks.
Where does culminicorn come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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